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CiLEANlNGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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out of the flight of bees and under co\er where 

 cross bees are not likely to go. 



We have had an enlarged view made of this 

 bee-j^ard because we respectfully commend the 

 general plan of it to our readers as a whole, in 

 either the North or South. 



We wish to suggest in this connection that a 

 sort of trolley wire or cable could be drawn taut 

 on a central line over each row of hives, and se- 

 cured by posts at each end. A grooved pulley 

 with a small tackle would then enable one to lift 

 the supers off the hives, hold them in midair, or 

 push them anywhere on the trolley, clear up to 

 the extreme end, where they may be deposited on 

 a wheelbarrow. 



The arrangement of hive-stands, also, is very 

 siniple, and has the further advantage that it per- 

 mits the apiarist to push his toes or insteps clear 

 under the hive. This allows him to get near his 

 work. — Ed.] 



CAUCASIANS, AND THEIR DISPOSI- 

 TION TO BUILD BRACE-COMBS. 



BY E. R. ROOT. 



On page 870, July 1, we referred to the ten- 

 dency of Caucasians to build brace-combs excess- 

 ively. We promised to furnish a photo, and 

 here are two of them, showing the tops of two of 

 the hives that were fair samples. While we oc- 

 casionally find Italian colonies that build comb 

 almost as bad as this, they are the exception. 



As our readers will recall, we had 35 Cauca- 

 sian and 35 Italian colonies at this yard. When 



we opened the hives of the daik bees we were 

 almost sure to find brace-combs like those shown 

 here. Of course, there were exceptions, both 

 among the Italians and the Caucasians. But we 

 are speaking only of the characteristics of the 

 two races as we found them at this yard during a 

 good flow of honey. 



But not only were there brace-combs between 

 the top-bars of the Caucasian colonies, but they 

 were built through the center of the brood-nest 

 to an extent that in some cases made it difficult 

 to spread the combs, because they were so tight- 

 ly stayed by means of these spurs. 



THE GROWTH OF A BEE-KEEPER. 



How a Sickly Boy Battled with Disease 



and Finally Became an Extensive 



Producer of Comb Honey. 



BY ALLEN S. HOWDEN, HIS FATHER. 



[The following uccount of how a sickly boy, pronounced in- 

 curable by eminent doctors and surgeons, began to mend after 

 he started to keep bees, so that he is now a strong hearty man 

 able to produce a carload of comb honey in a season, is exceed- 

 ingly interesting. His pluck and ambition to get well and be- 

 come one of the most extensive bee-keepers of his State will 

 prove encouraging and helpful to some other boy or girl, perhaps 

 handicapped by a frail body. The hero of this sketch has our 

 hearty congratulations. — Ed.] 



It may be of interest to some of the readers of 

 Gleanings to hear something of the progress of 

 one bee-man, and of the growth of his business, 

 which is now the largest in Allegany Co., N. Y. 

 As his early history has never appeared in print 



FIG. 2. — ANOTHER SAMPLE OF THE SAME THING SHOWN IN FIG. 1. 



